George Soros and the Rise of the Neo-Centrics

[cryofan]

GEORGE SOROS AND THE RISE OF THE NEO-CENTRICS

By Walt Contreras Sheasby, <[e-mail]>

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Funding for a some of the Neo-Centrics comes from George Soros, who
gives away $400m a year through his Foundation and thus subsidizes
many of the activist groups, luminaries and publications of the
American left, probably dwarfing the sums that once trickled out of
Langley or Moscow. Soros does not control the left, as right-wingers
imagine, but his monetary influence is one of those hushed secrets
inside the left usually dismissed as conspiracy-thinking. He has
given $60,000 to the Independent Media Institute, whose executive
director, Don Hazen, is a former publisher of Mother Jones. A
$50,000 grant went to the Nation Institute to support Radio Nation.
KPFA received a $40,000 grant in 1995. A $35,000 grant went to
American Prospect magazine. The list goes on and on.
....

All his gifts to the radical left are penny ante compared to his high
stakes, his dispensations to the liberal democrats, however. On
Tuesday, Nov. 11 Soros told the Washington Post that the day before
he had given five million dollars to MoveOn.org to benefit Howard
Dean. He has donated more modest sums to other Democratic candidates
and had already given 10 million dollars in August to "America Coming
Together." ACT is one of the pseudo-parties created (often referred
to as 527's, after their section of the new tax code) to get around
the McCain-Feingold campaign-finance law that made it illegal for Fat
Cats to give huge sums directly to a political party. By refusing to
adhere to the limit imposed by public funding, Dean is now free to
accept large contributions through this loophole.

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Business Week on Aug. 11, 2003 wrote that *Dean had a knack for
positioning himself and never lost an election. Those who know him
best believe Dean is moving to the left to boost his chances of
winning the nomination." If he wins the nomination, he'll run back
to the center. A Vermont political scientist says: *Howard is not a
liberal. He's a pro-business Rockefeller Republican."

If Howard Dean wins the nomination and puts Wesley Clark on the
ticket, as he planned before Clark himself entered the race, the
final days of September and October 2004 could be a real awakening
for the left. Or perhaps a bestirring of the ghost of the
Rockefeller vision of a genuine Internationale of the bourgeoisie.
The General, after all, has been a central figure in one of Soros'
most influential institutions, the International Crisis Group.
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More here:

http://www.green-rainbow.org/pipermail/needtoknow/2003-November/001496.html

[Gman]

1. Our very own Richard Melon Scaife

Soros gives me a lot of hope these days through his donations. There really is a reason to hope.

[w4rma]

2. Not true. Dean (and Kerry) are still limited to $2,000/donor.

Also, Soros donated to MoveOn.org to benefit the *whole* Democratic Party.